Word: schoolwork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carefully sheltered by her mother Jeanne, who works at a nearby tennis club, and her father George, a nuclear physicist, Tracy typically alternates a week on the tennis tour with two weeks of schoolwork and practice. That regimen allows for plenty of tournament play and an A average as well. "I just want my time at home to be normal," she says. Tracy has earned well in excess of $300,000 in the past year, so her $1-a-week allowance has been suspended. But she still must ask her mother for clothes money. Her older sister and two older...
...approach your academic life here depends on what priority you give your schoolwork in the rest of your life. There are plenty of students at Harvard who spend most of their days preparing for classes, in classes, or recovering from classes. Some are happy, others are not, but the rest of the world generally doesn't hear about them, either way. Then there are those who devote themselves heart and soul to some extracurricular activity
...approach your academic life here depends on what priority you give your schoolwork in the rest of your life. There are plenty of students at Harvard who spend most of their days preparing for classes, in classes, or recovering from classes. Some are happy, others are not, but the rest of the world generally doesn't hear about them, either way. Then there are those who devote themselves heart and soul to some extracurricular activity for four years and pay only lip service to their work, cruising by with late papers, bullshit, and all-nighters before exams...
...Gary's parents, who say they never received a call or letter about his schoolwork from any of Gary's teachers, see things differently. Says his father: "If he's slow in learning, then I think you should hold him back. Even my little ones-if I don't discipline them early, then I'm going to have problems later. Have they ever asked themselves how a teacher could give a student a passing grade for each of the years he went to school, and then he gets to the eleventh grade and they tell...
...Harvard of the mid-'50s certainly fostered feelings of security and self-satisfaction. Harvard hired maids to clean student rooms and make beds until 1953. Schoolwork sometimes interceded in the quest for a good time, but several class members allude to the easy availability of the "gentleman's C." The early '50s were the golden age of the college prank. For example, two Harvard band members were arrested in October 1953 for staging an impromptu 3 a.m. concert on Yale's Old Campus. The most elaborate stunt may have been The Crimson's theft of the Lampoon's symbol...